The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 ...

Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich returned to the place where she grew up to give voice to the people who lived through the events a ...

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of ...

These canines “survived for a reason,” an expert told us. But what exactly is causing these rapid genetic transformations?

More than 400 people have been working in shifts since the damage was caused to the giant shelter structure covering the area ...

A 30km exclusion zone is in place round the site. The Chernobyl Forum, a group of eight UN agencies, and the governments of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, have estimated the death toll at several ...

Not only that, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has become an animal sanctuary ... and around 220,000 people were relocated from Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. The disaster also ...

Construction on the Chernobyl Nuclear ... known as the “Exclusion Zone” was set up around the reactor. The nuclear fallout reached across the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus and even went as ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy ... Russia offered to supply Chernobyl with electricity from Belarus, a close Russian ally, which would bring the plant ...